No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
B. W. POWECanada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.
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May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.
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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.
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Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn’t work out in theory.
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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors’ rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.
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Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.
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A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
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Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.
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Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.
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There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
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